Back from the HIV and AIDS training in Pretoria, S.A.  I learned so much! 

So impressed with how modern South Africa is!  Clean streets, well-paved roads.  The Johannesburg airport rivaled anything in Europe or America.  I felt like I had just stepped into an American city, or perhaps, a European city when I stepped off the plane.  Can't wait to get to Cape Town and Fish Hoek!  Cape Town tomorrow! 

God has been so good to me through the whole training: got very close to many of the other 26 participants, most from many different countries around the world.  Ireland, Holland, Austria, Korea, Japan, South Africa, Kenya, England, Canada, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Congo, Switzerland, Romania, and America!  Such a diverse and warm-hearted group, many missionaries who are serving all over the world.  I was in awe of their faith and their calling!  Please pray for this training (God knows it by name), and for all of us who were led to it by God for a reason.  And pray for the resolve that we all feel to be God's hands and feet as we strive to accept and help those of God's children who have been affected by HIV and AIDS.

Well, got to pack...again, then off to bed.